On June 5, 2014, the Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, passed an anti-discriminatory policy with respect to transgender students that was immediately challenged. The policy was upheld on appeal. On September 5, 2014, the Janesville (Wisconsin) School Board adopted a policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room of the gender with which they identify if it's OK with their parents and principals. As reported in May of this year, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that it will uphold Title IX applicable to transgender students.
SLRMA is pleased to provide Best Practices and Policies for Serving Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students – Extracurricular Activities to its members. In conjunction with the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Student Practice and Policy published this year in May, we at SLRMA hope you will use this tool to review your school’s own policies.